The Mindful International Manager

How to Work Effectively Across Cultures

Jeremy Comfort, Peter Franklin

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9780749469832
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Communication
• Index: Business

The Mindful International Manager tackles the management situations that international managers have to handle every day. Accessible and jargon-free it explains how to clarify local vs. international roles, support and develop a team, organize and coordinate boundaries of time and distance, and win commitment toward common goals. The authors, both interculturalists, include exercises and best practice advice and the experiences and insights of practising international managers. They combine their practical approach with great depth of insight into the challenges of working and managing internationally and include the results of new research findings and cutting-edge case studies on topics such as leadership, global nomads, virtual teams, coaching and mentoring across cultures and decision-making.

Index

360° feedback (i), (ii)

ABC competencies (i)

accommodation (i), (ii)

achievement (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

achievement orientation (i)

acquisitions (i)

active listening (i), (ii)

activists (i)

Adler, N (i)

adventure (i)

affective cultures (i), (ii)

affirmative feedback (i), (ii), (iii)

ambiguity (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

appeasement (i), (ii)

appraisal (i), (ii), (iii)

ascription orientation (i), (ii), (iii)

assertiveness (i), (ii)

assumptions (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

attitudes (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

audio conferences (i)

autonomy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

avoidance (i), (ii)

behaviour (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

belief-orientation (i)

Bell, C H (i)

best practice

building a common culture (i)

communicating direction (i)

conflict resolution (i)

cooperating in international teams (i)

cooperating in virtual teams (i)

defining roles (i), (ii)

focus and flexibility (i)

leadership (i)

organization: the four Ps (i)

relationship-building (i)

representing (i)

transparency and harmony...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise01
• Praise02
• Title Page
• Imprint
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword by Craig Storti
• Introduction
• 01 Managing internationally
• 02 Cultures
• 03 Individuals
• 04 Situations
• 05 Direction
• 06 Organization and change
• 07 Roles
• 08 Support
• 09 Feedback
• 10 Representing
• 11 Conflict
• 12 Cooperation
• 13 Leading
• Case study answers
• Situational judgement commentaries
• Profiles of the managers quoted
• Glossary
• References
• Index
• Full imprint